In agreement with bm. The domain (eg google.com) handles many services and the www kind of says which service it is using (www, mail, smpt, pop, ftp...). Of course, as www traffic is probably the most common kind, servers will most likely know what is expected, and act accordingly. Many servers are configured to redirect traffic from (eg) google.com to www.google.com. One reason for this is ...
Get the netgear wireless extender WN2000RPT working to configure: First make sure the computer is connected to the netgear router via a cat-5 cable and cat-5 lights are blinking. Restart the computer and the Netgear wireless extender. Factory reset using paperclip to hold down 15 seconds until you see an orange flashing icon. Navigate to its internal default IP address 192.168.1.250 ...
Hostname is an attribute of a system stored locally on that system. "Computer name" is what Windows uses to refer to the hostname. A subdomain is a DNS concept. In DNS, domain names (domains for short) can be authoritative or non-authoritative - if they are non-authoritative, that means another server "handles" that domain. So in a domain such as www.mysite.invalid - one thing that could ...
networking - What is a hostname versus a computer name versus a ...
Make a guess: Your network environment is using something like Captive Portal that's relying on that non-encrypted HTTP URL for CP login redirection.
Edit: to answer your original question, yes, any member of www-data can now read and execute /var/www (because the last bit of your permissions is 5 = read + exec). But because you haven't used the -R switch, that applies only to /var/www, and not to the files and sub-directories it contains. Now, whether they can write is another matter, and depends on the group of /var/www, which you haven't ...
In modern webbrowsers is there any point in putting www infront of a url that uses it? When going to www.facebook.com or www.cbc.ca is there any benefit or difference made by omitting the www? It usually doesn’t, but it could. This has nothing to do with the browser; it has to do with the web-server. The web-server is a computer (or even multiple computers) which receive queries for web ...
browser - In modern webbrowsers is there any point in putting www ...